Au - "Solid Gold"

"Their entwined personalities made a fascinating knot. A knot hypnotic to look at, they would stare happily at the wound strands, guessing giggling where one finished and the other began. And that would last many months, some people stayed that way a lifetime, but for them eventually the time came to try untangling it, the way one decides to finally put together a puzzle. There seemed nothing else to do. And when they untangled it they found that their strands, their individual and respective strands, were quite normal, nothing but string, and not a knot at all." Ugh, barf. Edmund held the vegetarian pizza like a waiter and carried it quickly into the house. "Buon Giorno!" he yelled, catching himself in the foyer mirror, saggy-chinned. In the living room, Tate was putting together a puzzle, and Jen was closing a window of Minesweeper.

Broken into a million little pieces, Edmund was something to behold. His pixels were whole pictures. An entire sky! A blueberry pie! Exiting a non-exit! Crossed fingers, fake promise! Tinted paper, looks old! Hand hold! Gold tooth! Lemon cream! Book of Numbers! Tryst list! Sped-up footage! Tragedy Trunk! Bad underwear! Theatre comps! Sewer secrets! The 3rd Beer!

Au - "The Veil"

Edmund and May felt tenuous these days. Short texts, breaking plans, an inexplicable and unseasonable lack of enthusiasm. How many million things need to go right for something to even have a chance, Edmund would think, plugging in his phone at night, getting into bed with the usual ten ghosts.

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Au have made something like a masterpiece. Both Lights is marvelous. (Pitchfork have it wrong, wrong, wrong.)

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